{"id":91422,"date":"2023-03-30T18:30:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T23:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=91422"},"modified":"2023-03-30T18:30:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T23:30:28","slug":"91422","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=91422","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Democrats\u2019 Knee-Jerk Gun-Control Demands Ignore The Most Basic Facts About Human Nature<\/a><\/p>\n

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The difficult truth is, stopping these shootings is not just a matter of policy \u2014 it\u2019s a matter of the heart.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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DONALD TRUMP JR. AND CLIFF SIMS<\/div>\n
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The elementary school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, is a tragedy no community should ever have to endure. As fathers, our hearts break for those innocent children and their parents, as well as the brave and selfless teachers. The heroic police officers, who sprang into action with total disregard for their own safety, saved countless lives. The shooter, whose name should not be made famous by the media, reminds us there is evil in this world, that every moment with our families is precious, and that something in our country must change.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the radical left has once again rushed to demand new laws and policy changes that would have done nothing to stop this tragedy \u2014 or any tragedy.<\/p>\n

The renewed call to expand background checks to cover even private gun sales between friends and family members ignores the fact that most mass shooters who bought guns legally \u2014 including radical Islamic terrorists \u2014 passed background checks anyway. And no law will stop criminals from getting guns illegally by stealing them or acquiring them on the black market, because they\u2019re criminals.<\/p>\n

The Nashville tragedy has also reignited calls to implement so-called \u201cred-flag laws\u201d in which American citizens can have their firearms confiscated without due process, even as a result of baseless accusations or innuendo.\u00a0Research<\/a>\u00a0shows such laws have no effect on violent crime, and it\u2019s possible they could actually increase suicide rates by making troubled individuals fear discussing their issues with friends or family members because their ability to defend themselves and their loved ones could be taken away.<\/p>\n

All 50 states<\/a>\u00a0already have laws on the books \u2014 often referred to as\u00a0\u201cBaker Act\u201d statutes<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 regulating how to handle individuals who could be a danger to themselves or others and allowing medical professionals to intervene when necessary. In the case of the Nashville shooter \u2014 a transgender-identifying 28-year-old reportedly receiving treatment for mental illness \u2014 if police had been made aware that the shooter was hiding guns, they said they would have seized them.<\/p>\n

As with so many similar tragedies, the cowardly Covenant School shooter chose a soft target, shooting through the school\u2019s locked doors and counting on it taking time for armed law enforcement to respond. In fact, police\u00a0said<\/a> the shooter had mentioned another potential target, \u201cbut because of threat assessment by the suspect, too much security, they decided not to\u201d attack it.<\/p>\n

If you think criminals don\u2019t consider this when planning an attack, then you haven\u2019t read last year\u2019s Buffalo, New York shooter\u2019s manifesto in which he wrote that areas where concealed carrying of a weapon is \u201coutlawed or prohibited may be good areas of attack\u201d and that \u201careas with strict gun laws are also great places of attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Thus in the realm of policy solutions, hardening soft targets has the best track record of success. Many states\u00a0allow<\/a>\u00a0teachers to carry concealed weapons at schools to offer protection to their students and a deterrent to would-be attackers. As crime prevention scholar and frequent\u00a0Federalist contributor<\/a>\u00a0John R. Lott recently\u00a0pointed out<\/a>, \u201cSince the year 2000, there has yet to be a single case of someone being wounded or killed from a shooting, let alone a mass public shooting, between 6:00 AM and midnight at a school that lets teachers carry guns.\u201d There are many other safety measures that could be implemented with sufficient training and funding, but instead, the Biden administration is prioritizing sending billions of dollars to fund a war on the other side of the planet.<\/p>\n

The difficult truth is, stopping these shootings is not just a matter of policy \u2014 again, taking guns away from law-abiding Americans will never do anything to stop criminals, who by definition don\u2019t care about the law \u2014 it\u2019s a matter of the heart.<\/p>\n

We are all outraged, and we should never grow numb to the evil in this world. Events like this should never be allowed to become a normal part of our lives that we just endure. But yelling that politicians should \u201cdo something\u201d will not, in fact, do anything. We must return to a culture that values life, prioritizes family and community, celebrates and encourages fatherhood, and puts our faith in God above everything else.<\/p>\n

There is no quick, easy solution, and any politician claiming to offer one is a liar because there is no legislation to reverse the erosion of American culture that has brought us to this point.<\/p>\n

A new Wall Street Journal\u00a0survey<\/a>\u00a0shows a stunning abandonment of the values that once defined the United States and made our country great. Between 1998 and 2023, the percentage of Americans identifying religion as \u201cvery important\u201d to them dropped from 62 percent to 39 percent, and patriotism plummeted from 70 percent to 38 percent. Value on community involvement has dropped by half since just a few years ago. Depression and anxiety have skyrocketed. And the widespread push to impose radical transgender ideology on our society has caused a spike in Americans \u2014 including our innocent children \u2014 questioning the very fabric of their humanity and whether there is beauty in being made in the image of God.<\/p>\n

Until we reverse these trends and fix America\u2019s corroding values and culture, we will remain a broken society that produces broken people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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